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Celebrating Insurrection
The pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a problematic yet necessary practice. Although pronunciamientos rarely achieved the goals for which they were undertaken and sometimes resulted in armed rebellion, they were nonetheless both celebrated and commemorated, and the perceptions and representations of pronunciamientos themselves reflected the Mexican people’s response to these “revolutions.” The third in a series of books examining the pronunciamiento, this collection addresses the complicated legacy of pronunciamientos and their place in Mexican political culture. The essays explore the sacralization and leg...
Liberalism as Utopia
This book explores the legal culture of nineteenth-century Mexico and explains why liberal institutions flourished in some social settings but not others.
Forceful Negotiations
Often translated as "revolt," apronunciamientowas a formal, written protest, typically drafted as a list of grievances or demands, that could result in an armed rebellion. This common nineteenth-century Hispano-Mexican extraconstitutional practice was used by soldiers and civilians to forcefully lobby, negotiate, or petition for political change. Although the majority of these petitions failed to achieve their aims, many leading political changes in nineteenth-century Mexico were caused or provoked by one of the more than fifteen hundredpronunciamientosfiled between 1821 and 1876. The first of three volumes on the phenomenon of thepronunciamiento, this collection brings together leading scho...
Independent Mexico
In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’état, these pronunciamientos were actually a complex form of insurrectionary action that relied first on the proclamation and circulation of a plan that listed the petitioners’ demands and then on endorsement by copycat pronunciamientos that forced the authorities, be they national or regional, to the negotiating table. In Independent Mexico, Will Fowler provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamien...
Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados
Behind every pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a disgruntled individual, rebel, or pronunciado. Initially a role undertaken by soldiers, a pronunciado rallied military communities to petition for local, regional, and even national interests. As the popularity of these petitions grew, however, they evolved from a military-led practice to one endorsed and engaged by civilians, priests, indigenous communities, and politicians. The second in a series of books exploring the phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, this volume examines case studies of individual and collective pronunciados in regions across Mexico. Top schol...
The Grammar of Civil War
Unlike wars between nations, wherein the population generally comes together to defend its borders and is united by a common national goal, civil wars tear countries apart, divide families, and turn neighbors against each other. Civil wars are a form of self-harm in which a country's people seek redemption through self-destruction, punishing or severing those parts that are seen to have made the nation ill. And yet civil wars--with their characteristically appalling violence--remain chillingly common, defying the notion that they are somehow an aberration. In The Grammar of Civil War Will Fowler examines the origin, process, and outcome of civil war. Using the Mexican Civil War of 1857-61 (o...
Sins against Nature
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra natura—against nature—to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the acc...
La alameda potosina ante la llegada del ferrocarril
La mayoría de los estudios sobre ferrocarriles en la era porfiriana se han centrado en su función económica y su impacto socioeconómico. Lo novedoso del estudio de Luis Coronado se encuentra en dos aspectos distintos: por un lado, el enfoque sobre los aspectos discursivos y culturales de la "fiebre ferrocarrilera"; por otro, el enfoque sobre el notorio "progreso material porfiriano" en un espacio geográfico muy especifico: la alameda de la ciudad de San Luis Potosí.
Compendio de Planos de Los Establecimientos Públicos De San Luis Potosí a fines del Siglo XIX
Colección de planos de las primeras escuelas públicas en San Luis Potosí. México, a fines del siglo XIX.
Amor e historia. La expresión de los afectos en el mundo de ayer
Los textos reunidos en este volumen se refieren a múltiples concepciones del amor, aunque inevitablemente predominen los referidos a la reminiscencia medieval del amor que hemos perpetuado como relación sentimental de una pareja. Pero también hablamos del amor o de la falta de amor fraterno y filial, del amor al arte y a la ciencia, al mar y a Dios. En varios de los capítulos queda implícita la referencia al criterio aristotélico de la amistad como expresión perfecta del amor, mientras que tampoco olvidamos los otros amores ocasionales.
